Regional science

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The Regional Science (also: Regional Research ) deals from a political economy point of view with the etiology and constitution of regions . In doing so, against the background of the respective general socio-economic development, she examines the spatially specific regional development controlled by regional policy and planning and brings this into connection with abstract spatial theories. Thus it forms an intersection between u. a. Regional economics , economic geography , spatial and economic sociology , political and administrative science as well as planning theory .

history

Emergence

From an institutional point of view, regional science was founded by the American economist Walter Isard , who in 1954 founded the global umbrella organization Regional Science Association , which has been called Regional Science Association International since 1990 . The German-speaking subsection Society for Regional Research was founded in 1963. The history of the subject is closely linked to the University of Pennsylvania , where Isard taught and researched for decades. The first doctoral degree in regional science at this university was obtained in 1960 by William Alonso . The department for regional science was closed again in 1993.

History of ideas and theories

In terms of the history of ideas, Isard referred not least to the location theories of Walter Christaller and August Lösch . From the neoclassical spatial economics of that time , the regional science Isardian coinage adopted its model theories and quantitative methods. To this day, there is disagreement among experts as to whether this relatively narrowly defined regional science can be conceptually differentiated from broader regional research .

Around the mid-1970s, spatial structures began to fundamentally change in the course of the economic structural change in the industrialized countries ( deindustrialization , suburbanization , new international division of labor ), which led to a renewed interest in regional scientific questions, the new regionalism , which is closely related to the spatial turn of the social sciences . This went hand in hand with the emergence or resurgence of a large number of theoretical approaches to regionalization processes , including:

At the same time there was a renaissance of the neoclassical in the course of the new economic geography .

Selected publications

further reading

General

  • Arthur Benz , Dietrich Fürst, Heiderose Kilper, Dieter Rehfeld: Regionalization: Theory - Practice - Perspectives . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2517-8 .
  • Rainer Danielzyk: On the reorientation of regional research - a conceptual contribution . bis, Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-8142-0623-1 .
  • Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld, Matthias Türck (eds.): Empirical regional research today: Festschrift for Hans-Friedrich Eckey . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8349-2462-9 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-8349-6366-6 .
  • Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp (Eds.): Handbook of Regional Science . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-23429-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-23430-9 (3 volumes).
  • Wolfgang Krumbein, Hans-Dieter von Frieling, Uwe Kröcher, Detlev Sträter (eds.): Critical regional science: society, politics, space - theories and concepts at a glance . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89691-738-6 .

To the technical history

  • Trevor J. Barnes: The Rise (and Decline) of American Regional Science: Lessons for the New Economic Geography? In: Journal of Economic Geography . tape 4 , no. 2 , 2004, p. 107-129 , doi : 10.1093 / jeg / 4.2.107 .
  • David Boyce: A Short History of the Field of Regional Science . In: Papers in Regional Science . tape 83 , 2004, pp. 31-57 , doi : 10.1007 / s10110-003-0176-9 .
  • Walter Isard : History of Regional Science and the Regional Science Association International: The Beginnings and Early History . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-00934-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfgang Krumbein, Hans-Dieter von Frieling, Uwe Kröcher, Detlev Sträter: To the history of a critical regional science. Also an introduction . In this. (Ed.): Critical regional science: society, politics, space - an overview of theories and concepts . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89691-738-6 , p. 7-40 .
  2. ^ A b Hans-Dieter von Frieling: Space and regional development in the neoclassical economy - a critical overview . In: Wolfgang Krumbein, Hans-Dieter von Frieling, Uwe Kröcher, Detlev Sträter (eds.): Critical regional science: society, politics, space - theories and concepts at a glance . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89691-738-6 , p. 168-190 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Rehfeld: Production cluster: conception, analyzes and strategies for a reorientation of regional structural policy . Rainer Hampp Verlag, Munich / Mering 1999, ISBN 3-87988-445-5 , p. 15 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Rainer Danielzyk, Jürgen Oßenbrügge : Perspektivenischer Regionalforschung. “Locality Studies” and approaches based on regulation theory . In: Geographical Rundschau . tape 45 , no. 4 , 1993, p. 210-216 .
  5. ^ Uwe Kröcher: The New Regionalism: Rise and Fall (Stricke) of a Regional Scientific Alternative to Neoclassicism . In: Wolfgang Krumbein, Hans-Dieter von Frieling, Uwe Kröcher, Detlev Sträter (eds.): Critical regional science: society, politics, space - theories and concepts at a glance . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89691-738-6 , p. 191-211 .